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Red blood cell transfusion does not increase oxygen consumption in critically ill septic patients

BACKGROUND: Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is commonly used to increase oxygen transport in patients with sepsis. However it does not consistently increase oxygen uptake at either the whole-body level, as calculated by the Fick method, or within individual organs, as assessed by gastric intra-muco...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Constantino J, Akamine, Nelson, De Marco, Fernando VC, De Souza, José AM, Lagudis, Sofia, Knobel, Elias
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC83858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737926